can someone please tell me what i did wrong with this if statement?
 

hi,

this is for keeping baseball stats. i basically want to insert into
the spreadsheet to calculate ERA if the player's position (C3) = P
(for pitcher) otherwise insert a zero.

=IF(C3=P,O3*9/P3,0)

O3 = number of earned runs
P3 = number of innings pitched

i did something similar to calculate batting average,

=IF(D2=0,0,E2/D2)

where D2= at bats
E2= hits

and that one seems to work just fine.

can someone please tell me what i did wrong with this if statement?
 

On Nov 12, 2:11 pm, unclescrooge wrote:
hi,

this is for keeping baseball stats. i basically want to insert into
the spreadsheet to calculate ERA if the player's position (C3) = P
(for pitcher) otherwise insert a zero.

=IF(C3=P,O3*9/P3,0)

O3 = number of earned runs
P3 = number of innings pitched

i did something similar to calculate batting average,

=IF(D2=0,0,E2/D2)

where D2= at bats
E2= hits

and that one seems to work just fine.

You have to tell excel, that "P" is a string:

=IF(C3="P",o3*9/P3,0)

hth

Carlo

can someone please tell me what i did wrong with this if statement?
 

On Nov 11, 11:25 pm, carlo wrote:
On Nov 12, 2:11 pm, unclescrooge wrote:





hi,

this is for keeping baseball stats. i basically want to insert into
the spreadsheet to calculate ERA if the player's position (C3) = P
(for pitcher) otherwise insert a zero.

=IF(C3=P,O3*9/P3,0)

O3 = number of earned runs
P3 = number of innings pitched

i did something similar to calculate batting average,

=IF(D2=0,0,E2/D2)

where D2= at bats
E2= hits

and that one seems to work just fine.

You have to tell excel, that "P" is a string:

=IF(C3="P",o3*9/P3,0)

hth

Carlo- Hide quoted text -

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ah that explains it. i didn't think of that. thank you